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Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

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Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the Solaris world and most SYSV systems like it, there was a very
> simple startup system; it was not systemd, nor is it the "modern day"
> sysvinit.  It was much simpler and worked very, very well and extremely
> reliably.  How can we get that back on modern Debian?
>
>
> I mean simple, just like this:
>
>  - when entering a run level (start passed to each script)
>
>    - run all S scripts in alphanumeric order
>      S02xxx before S03xxx and S02aaa before S02aab ...
>
>  - when exiting a run level (stop passed to each script)
>
>    - run all K scripts in alphanumeric order
>      K02xxx before K03xxx and K02aaa before K02aab ...

That's pretty much sysvinit right there ... perhaps you're thinking of
"Upstart" as the "modern sysvinit"?

> Now I have sysvinit isntalled on wheezy, it is failing to run a simple
> script during system boot (as part of a planed reboot) and I cannot work
> out why.

What error messages (if any) are you getting?

> Now, I want the archiving script to run on system startup, I don't want
> dovecot or exim4 to be running when the script starts, it simply needs
> to have the /backup and /var file systems mounted to do it's required job

Looks like it might also need syslog running...
>
> My script is meant to create a log file in the /var/log directory.  If I
> run the script manually, it works perfectly.  There are some generic
> parts in the script, it is a fairly simple script, even if a little bit
> over complicated.  What do I need to do to fix it?

Not sure if this is an artifact of how you sent the mail to the group,
but your ARCHIVE_DIR is "3D/backup/[...]".  That's not a valid path.



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Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but  can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-09 19:50 +0200
  Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on  startup, but  can run manually without any trouble Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-06-09 21:20 +0200
    Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-09 21:30 +0200
      Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on  startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-06-09 22:30 +0200
        Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-09 22:40 +0200
          Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on  startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-06-09 23:10 +0200
            Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 23:30 +0200
        Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Mark Neyhart <Mark.Neyhart@akleg.gov> - 2016-06-09 23:30 +0200
  Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-06-09 21:30 +0200
    Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-09 21:40 +0200
      Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-06-09 22:10 +0200
        Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-09 22:20 +0200
          Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-06-10 00:40 +0200
            Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 10:20 +0200
  Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-06-09 23:40 +0200
    Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-10 08:00 +0200
      Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-06-10 09:20 +0200
        Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-11 06:10 +0200

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